This article shows how the current economic recession is influencing the thinking about the war on drugs. The State of California is effectively broke. It spends about $10 billion a year on its prison system housing about 150,000 inmates, many convicted of mere possession of marijuana. There is a move to release inmates to lower the current cost and also a movement to change the penalty of some crimes to fines only to lower the prison population. Some push is on to decriminalize marijuana possession in small amounts. California has already made legal medicinal marijuana.
Abramsky, Sasha, “the War Against the ‘War on Drugs’”, The Nation, June 17, 2009
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Post By: Alexandra Chunn
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